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Peter Biddle, Intel, explains the recent announcements around MeeGo, pointing to the new MeeGo SDK now available and the specific focus on developing for tablet PCs. He talks about the sales opportunities for developers and refers to 15 store partnerships due to be announced soon. He references the work that has taken place that...
Mark Zuckerberg gets a lot of attention for founding Facebook, but if it were up to him, his employees would be joining him on more of the magazine covers and television features. In an onstage conversation with venture capitalist John Doerr at this week’s NewSchools-Aspen Institute Summit 2011 conference, Zuckerberg said lavishing credit on...
Loopt a checkin app that seems to be pulling out all the stops in order to survive in a saturated space, has now partnered up with Groupon Now! in Chicago in order to provide Loopt users with locationally relevant realtime deals around them, push notifying them when they are near a deal. While the...
Mobile, location based social networking is a young but exciting field. How will it gain mainstream adoption and how will it become a viable business, though? A new partnership announced today between notable location service Loopt and high-flying mega-discount provider Groupon provides an interesting data point in the discussion. Loopt tracks the location of...
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Verizon could soon make its Flex View video-on-demand service available to anyone, not just those who pay for its FiOS TV service, the company said today. In a press briefing GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham attended, Shadman Zafar, SVP of product development for Verizon Communications, showed off some new features of the Flex View VOD offering...
Verizon could soon make its Flex View video-on-demand service available to anyone, not just those who pay for its FiOS TV service, the company said today. In a press briefing GigaOM’s Stacey Higginbotham attended, Shadman Zafar, SVP of product development for Verizon Communications, showed off some new features of the Flex View VOD offering...
Chomp, an app search engine, has partnered with Verizon Wireless to offer an app search engine for the communications company’s mobile app marketplace, V Cast. Chomp, which just launched an Android app that allows users to search across Google’s Android Marketplace, now allows customers to search for apps on the V Cast marketplace. Chomp...
More than half of consumers watch TV with a laptop, tablet or mobile device in their hands, and a growing number are posting to Twitter or Facebook while doing so. But which shows are they talking about? That’s the point of SocialGuide, which aims to provide a real-time view into which shows are stirring...